Chapter 63
Chapter 63
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 63
Chapter Title: Is This What You Like, Team Leader? (1)
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‘Milky Way’ Guild was thrown into emergency mode.
The reason was that the training team had cleared the dungeon far too early.
‘They should’ve had at least three more days?’
It was unbelievable.
No one could have imagined that the 12th batch of probationary members from ‘Milky Way’ Guild would defeat the boss monster and clear the 10th floor.
A guild member waiting on the 9th floor had sent word, so it couldn’t be a lie.
Training Batch 12 had truly cleared the 10th floor and emerged in just seven days.
After taking down the boss monster, the ‘Wounded Merfolk Warrior’.
Hwang Deok-su contacted Jin Kwon-cheol and arrived at the gate.
Jin Kwon-cheol had gathered the reporters.
It was a strategy to announce that ‘Milky Way’ Guild was worth investing in and to grow their slice of the pie.
To promote it on a grand scale, they needed the press.
Crowds gathered in Gwanghwamun Square.
The hunters eyed the reporters with skepticism.
“What’s this? Why are there reporters here?”
“Are they putting on some kind of event?”
The ‘Milky Way’ Guild members emerged from the gate.
Having lived like castaways on a deserted island for a week, they looked utterly ragged.
Jin Kwon-cheol searched for his son.
His son, who should stand out the most among the hunters...
“Where’s Yu-han?”
There were a whopping eighty people.
Yet Jin Yu-han was nowhere to be seen.
A hunter who enters the ‘Tower’ must come out of the ‘Tower’.
Jin Kwon-cheol knew well there was only one reason that didn’t happen.
But he couldn’t believe it.
‘All these worthless pests survived... but my Yu-han is gone...?’
All the probationary members of ‘Milky Way’ Guild were E-Rank or F-Rank.
There were a few nearing D-Rank, but most were just E-Rank level.
Even if some died in an unfortunate accident, it made no sense for Jin Yu-han, a D-Rank hunter, to be the one killed.
Why would his strongest son be the one to die?
‘Please, please!’
Choi Da-eun quickly scanned the faces of the ‘Milky Way’ probationaries.
She searched so desperately that she wondered if she’d ever looked for someone this frantically in her life.
The rotten face of Hwang Deok-su.
At the end of that gaze, one hunter came into view.
Normally, she’d never want to lay eyes on him, but why did he feel so welcome now?
Even a wife sending her husband off to war wouldn’t be this thrilled.
“Uwaa, fuck yeah!”
The other team leaders, reporters, even Association executives were there.
Yet Choi Da-eun had no intention of saving face.
She couldn’t.
The thought of landing one on Hwang Deok-su made her cheer inwardly.
Park Sun-woo, the guy rumored to be the biggest loser in ‘Milky Way’ Guild, had survived and returned.
Hwang Deok-su couldn’t believe it.
‘How?’
Park Sun-woo’s potential was rock bottom, zero.
The odds of a guy with growth potential converging on zero surviving the 10th floor were lower than winning the lottery jackpot, going to claim it, and getting struck by lightning on the way.
“What the hell is this?!”
Jin Kwon-cheol exploded in rage, grabbing Hwang Deok-su by the collar.
Hwang Deok-su couldn’t hide his panic and shoved Jin Kwon-cheol away.
“Wh-what the hell are you doing all of a sudden! There are reporters here, get a...
“Grip? Fuck, you think I’m in any state to get a grip?!”
Jin Kwon-cheol had already lost it.
Which father could keep his head straight after his precious eldest son died?
“You’re standing there staring at me like that? Grown some balls, have you? Huh?”
Hwang Deok-su’s face twisted in a scowl.
That only fueled Jin Kwon-cheol’s rage further.
Hwang Deok-su’s plan had only half failed.
The plan to kill Park Sun-woo and Training Team 4, collar Choi Da-eun, and prove ‘Milky Way’ Guild was investment-worthy.
This 10th-floor raid was meant to advance both plans at once.
Training Team 4 surviving intact and keeping Choi Da-eun was shitty, but not a total failure.
But Jin Kwon-cheol was different.
He too was executing two plans simultaneously, but they both revolved around Jin Yu-han.
With Jin Yu-han dead, even success meant nothing.
“...People are watching.”
Hwang Deok-su gritted his teeth, glaring at Jin Kwon-cheol.
The spotlight was turning on them, and it pissed him off.
To Jin Kwon-cheol, it was absurd.
This mid-tier guild master treating him, the Hunter Association’s Support Division Head, like this.
Did he think being neighborhood buddies made them equals just because he’d played nice?
Jin Kwon-cheol’s face flushed red as if it might burst.
Whatever.
Clap clap clap clap. Choi Da-eun was applauding Training Team 4.
The other team leaders welcomed their own teams too.
Everyone except Training Team 1’s leader.
“Tr-Training Team 1? Where’s Team 1...”
“No idea~.”
Choi Da-eun sidled up to Team 1 Leader, her response dripping with mockery.
“Probably all croaked, looking just like their retard leader~?”
“I-is that something to say here, Team 4 Leader?”
“If you suck, you die.”
Choi Da-eun spat her pent-up resentment at Team 1 Leader.
It was a message to Hwang Deok-su too.
“Look at you, strutting around like hot shit just ‘cause you got some handouts from a shitty guild, and now you’re dead from biting off more than you could chew trying to snag the boss monster? Right?”
“......”
Even Team 1 Leader had no retort.
She figured it was something like that too.
“Knew it from the start, the way you were lording it over everyone.”
Did Choi Da-eun have ‘Area Taunt’ or something?
‘Milky Way’ Guild Master Hwang Deok-su, Hunter Association Support Division Head and father of the deceased Jin Yu-han—Jin Kwon-cheol, and 37-year-old spinster Training Team 1 Leader Lee Mi-jeong.
She was flipping off all three at once.
“Fuckin’ idiot guild.”
Choi Da-eun pulled a document folder and a brown envelope from her bag.
This should’ve been the moment for the ‘Milky Way’ probationaries to shine.
But the spotlight swung to Choi Da-eun.
“Here! Documents proving the collusion between Hunter Association Support Division Head Jin Kwon-cheol and ‘Milky Way’ Guild Master Hwang Deok-su.”
“......?!”
Both Hwang Deok-su and Jin Kwon-cheol grasped the situation.
The moment those words left Choi Da-eun’s mouth, they realized it wasn’t time to fight each other.
But it was too late.
The reporters’ faces lit up with greed.
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Kill off Training Team 1 members and frame all of Batch 12 as accomplices to shut their mouths.
Then, assume they somehow took down the boss monster ‘Wounded Merfolk Warrior’.
‘Problems remain.’
Jin Kwon-cheol, Jin Yu-han’s father and Association executive, and Hwang Deok-su, who used me like a disposable tool.
I had to deal with both to keep them from touching me.
‘......’
I uncovered the collusive relationship between Jin Kwon-cheol and Hwang Deok-su.
How?
King God General Emperor Chungmugong Majesty Taming App lent its power.
As a ‘Sex Game’ reward.
Even on the 10th floor, I could play the sex game.
It wasn’t impossible.
But on day 3 or 4, a weird reward popped up.
Named ‘Unknown Document’.
Choi Da-eun refused to participate.
Masturbate in front of me three times for some mystery item?
No way in hell.
So I took it.
Jerkeled off like mad right in front of Choi Da-eun and snagged the ‘Unknown Document’.
‘...Who’d have thought Jin Kwon-cheol and Hwang Deok-su were in that kind of relationship.’
The two were tangled in all sorts of corruption.
Jin Kwon-cheol used his Association power to put ‘Milky Way’ Guild on the mid-tier support list, and Hwang Deok-su funneled some of the subsidies back to him through his son Jin Yu-han.
It was corruption on a scale I, a mere probationary grunt in ‘Milky Way’ Guild, couldn’t even fathom.
‘Fuck, why’d Choi Da-eun sign such shitty terms?’
I checked the contract between Hwang Deok-su and Choi Da-eun too.
It was packed with blatantly unfair clauses.
I gifted it to her.
Just like I’d given her the Lowest All-Stats-Up Potion to show her the ‘Sex Game’s’ power.
And the result was the spotlight now on Choi Da-eun.
“Is there proof those documents are real?”
“Isn’t this just a scheme to slander Division Head Jin Kwon-cheol and Master Hwang Deok-su?”
“You’re from their guild—did a rival guild make you an offer?”
The reporters bombarded Choi Da-eun with questions.
What kind of circus was this in front of Gwanghwamun Square?
Choi Da-eun answered with surprising calm.
“Fuck, those asshole pricks are the problem. No idea why you’re acting like I’m the bad guy. I’ve compiled all the details and uploaded them to NewTube.”
“......”
The reporters shut up.
A quick check online showed articles already popping up on the topic.
She must’ve tipped off the media before coming.
“Hwang Deok-su’s a boomer perv who gropes women like it’s breakfast, and Jin Kwon-cheol’s a trash Association exec skimming subsidies by shoving his kid into a guild!”
Click click-!
“The Association handled it quick. Hunter Association, top tier.”
Choi Da-eun flashed a thumbs-up at the cameras.
The reporters started snapping photos of her.
The sound of furious typing rang out too.
They’d prepped articles to post, but the situation had changed drastically.
They had to write new ones.
Sensational headlines grabbed eyes.
Choi Da-eun’s face plastered huge on the articles.
Association official abusing power, guild master sexual harassment, Choi Da-eun transformed into the pitiful female victim.
Jin Kwon-cheol whipped out his smartphone in a panic.
Pulling every string he had to suppress the articles.
“Take those articles down now! They’re all fake news!”
But it didn’t work.
Articles sprouted like weeds, and the Hunter Association moved to cut off the tail.
They’d decided to sacrifice Jin Kwon-cheol.
Hwang Deok-su couldn’t muster any countermeasures.
He was just a mid-tier guild master; all he could do was slump in place and let them photograph him.
Hwang Deok-su was done, Jin Kwon-cheol was done.
Our Korea despises power crimes and sex crimes more than anywhere.
Public opinion sided with Choi Da-eun.
Sure, some called her a gold digger, but Hwang Deok-su’s secretary dropped one line and shattered any neutrality.
Ruined.
Jin Kwon-cheol was ruined, Hwang Deok-su was ruined, irredeemable damage.